The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Abayomi Fashina, who was the state Returning Officer declared Uzodimma re-elected on Sunday morning at about 10 am after over eight hours of collation of local government results.

“That you Hope Uzodimma of APC having satisfied the law is hereby returned elected,” Fashina declared.

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Senator Rochas Okorocha, a former Governor of Imo State made the announcement in a letter to the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan.

Senator Lawan read the letter at the commencement of Wednesday’s plenary at the Senate chamber of the assembly in Abuja.

Okorocha is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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Earlier in February, a High Court in Imo State, Southeast Nigeria ordered the interim forfeiture of all the properties said to be acquired through “illegal means” by Okorocha.

On August 9, the court ordered the final forfeiture of the said properties.

Okorocha, through his lawyer Oba Maduabuchi, asked the court to issue a restraining order against the EFCC and Imo government from confiscating his properties.

He also asked the judge to restrain the defendants from investigating him or implementing the recommendations of the panels set up to probe previous administrations in the state, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

The presiding judge, Ahmed Mohammed, in his ruling held that granting the order at a time when the jurisdiction of the court to hear the matter is being challenged, will not be in the interest of justice.

Oba Maduabuchi while reacting to the judge said he would appeal the judgment.

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Gulak is a politician who hailed from Adamawa State.

Imo State Police command has confirmed that Gulak was shot dead at the airport in Imo State on Sunday.

Gulak a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party, decamped to the All Progressives Congress in 2018.

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The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba disclosed this shortly after the State Executive Council Meeting in Owerri, the state capital on Wednesday.

Emelumba said the reason for the dissolution was to rearrange the activities of the state government after Uzodinma’s one year in office.

According to him, out of the 28 commissioners, only eight commissioners were left to carry on with their activities.

The commissioners left are Health, Information, Tourism, Women Affairs, Works, Finance, Youths, and the Ministry of Technology.

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The apex court, in a decision by a seven-man panel of Justices led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, reinstated the judgement it gave on January 14, which declared Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressive Congress, APC, as the validly elected governor of Imo state.

In the lead verdict that was delivered by Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, the apex court, held that Ihedioha’s application to set-aside the judgement that removed him from office lacked merit.

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